…is they break if you hit them hard enough. I think it is required, given my previous posts on all the benefits of cycling, to disclose that a few days ago I went out on a snowy morning when I probably shouldn’t have and broke my collarbone in two places. While this has provided lots [...]
For the past few years, I’ve had a slow-burning desire to own less. Certainly in the physical sense, I keep looking around me at the contents of bookshelves, boxes of papers, odds and ends and jars of spices I haven’t opened in a year. I am just not going to use that star anise. How [...]
Our long distance bills are typically pretty small, but every so often a long call to an old friend results in a surprising phone bill. After years of trusting Working Assets Long Distance to be reasonable (and contribute to good causes) my growing suspicions were too great to ignore. Turns out we were in fact [...]
After over 20 years at the keyboard I’ve hit a major roadblock that’s stopping me in my tracks. Last week I was diagnosed with carpal tunnel in both wrists and tendonitis in several places. It’s not clear how serious or long-term a problem this presents, but I must cut down my typing immediately, so posts [...]
Ah, Defender. My friend Josh Seiden has started a blog just about that old Williams video game. 1981 in the city all over again.
It may be that I finally recognize who my peers are, or it may be that age makes me value them. Either way, sitting down to a slow meal of conversation and laughter with people you respect and enjoy seems increasingly important in life. I wonder if I just came to this realization late?